pass over vs rule out

pass over

verb
  • To bypass (something); to skip (something). 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over. 

  • To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something). 

  • To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else. 

  • To overlook; not to note or resent. 

  • To die and thus progress to the afterlife. 

rule out

verb
  • To disallow. 

  • To reject an option from a list of possibilities. 

  • To make something impossible. 

  • To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler. 

  • To make unavailable. 

How often have the words pass over and rule out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )